[pianotech] Google groups

Terry Beckingham t46xd8jb at xplornet.com
Mon Feb 25 17:07:30 MST 2013


Paul,

Thanks very much for your assistance (and the assistance of some others). 
After working at it for half a day, I am finally successful at joining 
Google Groups Pianotech and I can both receive and send from my email 
client. WHEW!

Terry Beckingham

At 02:37 PM 2/25/2013 -0800, you wrote:
>Hi, Terry:
>I'm going bald too, but this list thing is accelerating the process.
>If you use an email reader, you should be able to set it up to get 
>messages from any email account, including gmail or whatever, and pull 
>them into the program.  I use Zimbra by VMware.  Free.  I have three 
>accounts which all import into Zimbra, and it will organize the emails 
>automatically based upon the Subject.  I have my gmail account, my 
>earthlink account and my website email account all in there, and I can add 
>any other account that I want to.  You need the information from the ISP 
>to configure the accounts.  It might do it automatically, but I don't 
>remember.  Google will have the information for you to use, you have to 
>find it.  I'd tell you how to find it but I'm now late for an appointment.
>Paul McCloud
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Terry Beckingham" <t46xd8jb at xplornet.com>
>To: pianotech at ptg.org
>Sent: Monday, February 25, 2013 2:25:01 PM
>Subject: Re: [pianotech] Google groups
>
>Yes, I know that David and it was that google group that I joined. I 
>quickly got posts from it, but I can't send to it without going to my 
>gmail account on the web. I don't want that. I want to be able to send to 
>google groups (pianotech) from my mail client.
>
>I am about to give up and quit. I have made up 3 google accounts now and 
>none would work. Of course, once I have made an account I can't use the 
>same information to make up a new account. I am already bald, or else I 
>would be pulling out my hair.
>
>Terry
>
>At 10:09 PM 2/25/2013 +0000, you wrote:
>
>
>Terry, you sould be able to send and receive emails to and from the Google 
>pianotech group in just the same way as you can to this List. (I am 
>talking about the Google group, set up by John Delacour 16 months ago, not 
>the more recent Google+ group, which I haven't properly looked into yet).
>
>Best regards,
>
>David.
>..
>On 25/02/2013 21:52, pianotech-request at ptg.org wrote:
>
>
>
>
>It appears that the only way I can send to Google groups is to go onto the 
>web and log into my Google account and send from there.
>
>I don't like going to the web if I don't have to, because I do not have 
>high speed. I use Eudora for my email and everything comes directly into 
>my Eudora. I can have Google forward from my Gmail account to my other 
>address, but I can't send to Google groups from my Eudora.
>
>Am I missing something here? Is there a way to send from my Eudora to 
>Google groups without logging onto my Google account on the web?
>
>I'm frustrated.
>
>Terry Beckingham



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